Hang on for the ride: with characteristic poetry and pluck, Barbara Kingsolver and her family sweep readers along on their journey away from the industrial-food pipeline to a rural life in which they vow to buy only food raised in their own neighborhood, grow it themselves, or learn to live without it. Their good-humored search yields surprising discoveries about turkey sex life and overly zealous zucchini plants, en route to a food culture that's better for the neighborhood and also better on the table.

Part memoir, part journalistic investigation, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle makes a passionate case for putting the kitchen back at the center of family life, and diversified farms at the center of the American diet.

• The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
• Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life
• Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life
• The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
• In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto